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En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.
May 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.
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This sounds post-apocalyptic, but aspiring filmmakers and writers really should find and collect DVD commentaries.
So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie.
Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.
So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie.
Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.
April 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
This sounds post-apocalyptic, but aspiring filmmakers and writers really should find and collect DVD commentaries.
So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie.
Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.
So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie.
Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.
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This is a big deal for the Navy -- and $1.8M a relatively small sum relative to the maritime diplomacy that happens with heads of dozens of world navies all coming together.
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
Navy Cancels 56-Year-Old International Seapower Symposium Due to ‘Unavailable Funding’ - USNI News
THE PENTAGON — The Navy is canceling its biennial International Seapower Symposium due to “unavailable funding,” the service confirmed to USNI News Thursday. The chief of naval operations has hosted t...
news.usni.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is a big deal for the Navy -- and $1.8M a relatively small sum relative to the maritime diplomacy that happens with heads of dozens of world navies all coming together.
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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A tale of two movies:
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
April 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A tale of two movies:
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
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There are some people on this site who don’t think anyone should be experiencing joy right now due to Trump facism.
Baby, joy is resistance. If we don’t feel moments of joy then we become completely demoralized, and then we’re incapable of fighting. Which is what they want.
Baby, joy is resistance. If we don’t feel moments of joy then we become completely demoralized, and then we’re incapable of fighting. Which is what they want.
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
There are some people on this site who don’t think anyone should be experiencing joy right now due to Trump facism.
Baby, joy is resistance. If we don’t feel moments of joy then we become completely demoralized, and then we’re incapable of fighting. Which is what they want.
Baby, joy is resistance. If we don’t feel moments of joy then we become completely demoralized, and then we’re incapable of fighting. Which is what they want.
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The great thing about being born is 1980 is that I get to swap my genx card out for a millennial card the moment everyone realizes genx is going to be just as selfish and nasty as the boomers were.
April 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The great thing about being born is 1980 is that I get to swap my genx card out for a millennial card the moment everyone realizes genx is going to be just as selfish and nasty as the boomers were.
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The same is true for writing. These AI-happy morons so wildly misunderstand the creative process that they see the most fulfilling parts of it as a problem rather than an opportunity. This will only accelerate as more executive positions are filled by people who hate the industries they’re in.
"Those who have drank the AI Kool-Aid don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration *is* making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”
Even from my perch inside gamedev, I had no idea it was already this bad. The rot is spreading. A necessary, sobering read. (gift link)
April 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The same is true for writing. These AI-happy morons so wildly misunderstand the creative process that they see the most fulfilling parts of it as a problem rather than an opportunity. This will only accelerate as more executive positions are filled by people who hate the industries they’re in.
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Just the worst motherfuckers on the planet, my god
Look at these fucking assholes celebrating defunding libraries.
April 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just the worst motherfuckers on the planet, my god
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This is going to harm small and rural libraries and the communities they serve. Now is the time to:
➡️ Sign up for a local and state library card (if your state offers one)
➡️ Visit your IMLS funded museums
➡️ Call your legislators and demand they stand up for funding America’s libraries and museums
➡️ Sign up for a local and state library card (if your state offers one)
➡️ Visit your IMLS funded museums
➡️ Call your legislators and demand they stand up for funding America’s libraries and museums
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
www.npr.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is going to harm small and rural libraries and the communities they serve. Now is the time to:
➡️ Sign up for a local and state library card (if your state offers one)
➡️ Visit your IMLS funded museums
➡️ Call your legislators and demand they stand up for funding America’s libraries and museums
➡️ Sign up for a local and state library card (if your state offers one)
➡️ Visit your IMLS funded museums
➡️ Call your legislators and demand they stand up for funding America’s libraries and museums
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I select eBooks for our patrons through a statewide consortium powered by the State Library of Ohio through federal grants. Digital borrowing is HUGE at our library, so this will hit our patrons right in the face. A reminder, the IMLS is like 0.003% of the federal budget. This “saves” nothing.
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
bookriot.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I select eBooks for our patrons through a statewide consortium powered by the State Library of Ohio through federal grants. Digital borrowing is HUGE at our library, so this will hit our patrons right in the face. A reminder, the IMLS is like 0.003% of the federal budget. This “saves” nothing.
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Found out tonight that a report I’d written for the Social Security Administration had been taken off the web.
Along with slashing grant programs, seems they’re taking down work written for those programs. Government-supported research, now hidden by the government.
Internet archive still has it:
Along with slashing grant programs, seems they’re taking down work written for those programs. Government-supported research, now hidden by the government.
Internet archive still has it:
web.archive.org
March 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Found out tonight that a report I’d written for the Social Security Administration had been taken off the web.
Along with slashing grant programs, seems they’re taking down work written for those programs. Government-supported research, now hidden by the government.
Internet archive still has it:
Along with slashing grant programs, seems they’re taking down work written for those programs. Government-supported research, now hidden by the government.
Internet archive still has it:
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theyre literally standing outside the treasury building, yelling at them made sense while they were sitting on their hands, now that theyre actually doing the thing, going on and on at them instead of GOP enablers in congress is starting to segue into doing musk's work for him
February 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
theyre literally standing outside the treasury building, yelling at them made sense while they were sitting on their hands, now that theyre actually doing the thing, going on and on at them instead of GOP enablers in congress is starting to segue into doing musk's work for him
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"Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in Western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience." - Alex Steffen
February 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in Western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience." - Alex Steffen
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"Things seem dire now" -- true
"LOL, why do you even try, you know it's all meaningless and our rights are toilet paper" -- go fuck yourself
"LOL, why do you even try, you know it's all meaningless and our rights are toilet paper" -- go fuck yourself
February 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Things seem dire now" -- true
"LOL, why do you even try, you know it's all meaningless and our rights are toilet paper" -- go fuck yourself
"LOL, why do you even try, you know it's all meaningless and our rights are toilet paper" -- go fuck yourself
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A lot of people are frozen in their fear right now and do not know what to do, even though they are horrified by what's going on and may want to act. When you witness other people take to the streets and resist publicly, it can help thaw that freeze and provide a model for what is possible.
February 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A lot of people are frozen in their fear right now and do not know what to do, even though they are horrified by what's going on and may want to act. When you witness other people take to the streets and resist publicly, it can help thaw that freeze and provide a model for what is possible.
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Tearing up reading this interview with long time @chicagoreader.com film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. It is so sad to see the institution that is this newspaper and the ideas it has supported brought to the brink of collapse yet again.
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
An interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum - Chicago Reader
The longtime Reader film critic discusses his life, career, and artistry amid the release of his new book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader.
chicagoreader.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Tearing up reading this interview with long time @chicagoreader.com film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. It is so sad to see the institution that is this newspaper and the ideas it has supported brought to the brink of collapse yet again.
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
Courage, dear hearts.
February 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Courage, dear hearts.
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instead of affirming trump’s belief that he is king of america, it is important to recognize that federalism provides states the tools to push back or at least ignore these orders
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
instead of affirming trump’s belief that he is king of america, it is important to recognize that federalism provides states the tools to push back or at least ignore these orders
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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im so confused.
instead of reposting what elected democrats are doing/saying on their accounts, people are reposting influencers saying elected democrats aren't doing anything?
you're defeating yourselves.
instead of reposting what elected democrats are doing/saying on their accounts, people are reposting influencers saying elected democrats aren't doing anything?
you're defeating yourselves.
January 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
im so confused.
instead of reposting what elected democrats are doing/saying on their accounts, people are reposting influencers saying elected democrats aren't doing anything?
you're defeating yourselves.
instead of reposting what elected democrats are doing/saying on their accounts, people are reposting influencers saying elected democrats aren't doing anything?
you're defeating yourselves.
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!
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NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System